Tech In Plain Sight: Meet The Robot That Does CPR

Usually in Tech In Plain Sight, we talk about technology you probably see every day, even if you don’t notice it. But we hope you don’t get to see one …read more

FLOSS Weekly Episode 881: Eating Its Own Tail

This week Jonathan chats with Olivier Vernin of Updatecli, the tool that helps you update everything! Need to roll out dependency updates intelligently? Or even automatically deploy to a server …read more

Hunting The Wild Vibrotruck

A few weeks ago, my wife was out walking the dog, and she sent me four or five photos of small orange boxes planted all around our neighborhood. (OK, I’ll …read more

Hackaday Europe 2026: Outdoors With Robots

Erin Kennedy has been building robots for over a decade now, with a focus on smaller bots that interact with, or maybe even clean up, the outdoor environment. Still other …read more

Hackaday Links: September 6, 2026

Yesterday, Isar Aerospace secured its place in the history books when the upper stage of their Spectrum rocket put a payload of CubeSats into low Earth orbit (LEO). Not only …read more

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Re-creating NASA’s Heat Shield Problem

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By Maya Posch | September 13, 2026

After the Orion capsule of the Artemis I lunar mission returned to Earth, it was found that massive chunks of its heatshield had been ripped off, posing a serious risk …read more
Hackaday Links: September 13, 2026

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By Tom Nardi | September 13, 2026

We try to steer clear of politics and societal issues here at Hackaday, so a protest is not usually the sort of thing we’d cover. But we figure it’s safe …read more
Rusting An E-scooter (In A Good Way)

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By Al Williams | September 13, 2026

It is a classic Hackaday situation. You have an Egret GT E-scooter. It has a screen that shows the usual dash stats, but that led to an annoyance. You could …read more
A 386 PC For Your RP2350

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By Jenny List | September 13, 2026

We’re at a fortunate moment: microcontrollers available at modest prices are edging into the capability level previously reserved for full-fat systems and can, through emulation, run software beyond classic 8-bit …read more
Analyzing The FScale Instruction In Intel’s 8087 FPU

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By Maya Posch | September 13, 2026

During his continuing analysis of the architecture and microcode of Intel’s highly influential 8087 floating point unit (FPU) co-processor, [Ken Shirriff] has now arrived at the point where he can …read more
Keeping Time On Tumbling Icosahedra

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By Aaron Beckendorf | September 13, 2026

Clocks are almost the ideal devices to inspire creativity in hackers — they have a simple, well-defined task, but there’s an almost unlimited number of ways to carry it out. …read more
Whip-Cracking Machine Reliably Breaks The Sound Barrier

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By Aaron Beckendorf | September 13, 2026

We tend to think of breaking the sound barrier as a comparatively modern accomplishment, but on a smaller scale, cattle herders have been breaking it for centuries: the cracking sound …read more

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